Customer shot dead in clothing store

A customer of a clothing store in southeast Houston was fatally shot Saturday during a robbery, police said.

Two men entered Gordon's Man's Store, in the 500 block of Broadway, about 5:20 p.m. and demanded money at gunpoint, said Sgt. Mark Newcomb.

The men got the money, but then shot and killed a male customer, whose name was being withheld, Newcomb said.

The robbers fled to a gray car a block away and were last seen heading west on East Elm, Newcomb said.

A clerk of the 76-year-old store who has worked at Gordon's for about two decades was also shot during the robbery, Newcomb said. That man, who was not identified, was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital, where he was in stable condition, according to Gordon's owner David Donahoe.

"He's like family," Donahoe said of his employee. Investigators said the robbers were Hispanic.

One was about 5 feet 9 inches, with a medium build, and was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt. The other man was described as wearing khaki polo boots.